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Anonymous Denies Targeting Westboro Baptist Church

Posted by Soulskill on from the listen-to-admiral-ackbar dept.

lenwood writes "Last week we discussed news that the hacking group Anonymous was staging an attack against Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church. It turns out that this was a publicity stunt staged by WBC themselves. Anonymous issued a press release disassociating themselves from this."

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  1. How? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How can a group that by it's very nature has no central control or even consistent make-up release such a statement. How does one member or group of members of Anonymous know whether or not any other part of Anonymous is/was doing something?

  2. Re:They should have chosen a more distinctive name by Kiaser+Zohsay · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... then anyone could do something on behalf of Anonymous, and you couldn't deny it was done by them.

    Or maybe that's just what they want you to think ...

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    I am not your blowing wind, I am the lightning.
  3. Wait a minute by OverlordQ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every time an article comes on here about Anon everybody bashes the news organizations for saying Anonymous has a hierarchy with 'senior' members, leaders, and so forth.

    So why are you so quick to accept this? How can this press release saying 'Its not really us' carry any more weight then one saying "It's us".

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    Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
  4. Re:Written by WBC? by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But since anyone can act as Anonymous then the WBC claim was legit. I can put up a server, make myself a part of Anonymous, attempt to hack my server, leave Anonymous, then claim Anonymous tried to hack my server.

    In fact, how do we know who issued the Anonymous press release? On the anonnews website it says, "Anyone can post to the site, and moderators will approve relevant posts. No censorship takes place!"

    Maybe Anonymous should look into LifeLock...

  5. Re:Way to... by interkin3tic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    With religiously inappropriate content

    That describes their signs, what they're saying, and pretty much what they're all about, so I think anonymous have to dig -really- deep to find something offensive to them. Like as in "that which offends anonymous won't phase WBC."

    Honestly I think faxing them bible quotes would annoy them more. That whole "Love thy neighbor" thing is either crossed out in their bibles, or is pretty narrowly defined. "Do unto others etc" must annoy the shit out of them.